The
good old NFL, the premier football league in the world, is full of Sunday
heroes and scapegoats, for either winning, or losing.
Most college football
players would "die" for a spot on any of the 32 teams making up the
National Football League. But, as
sometimes happens, "There is something
rotten in Denmark."

In
the last 14 years, 87 NFL players have been arrested
for everything from murder
to fraud. It seems that 12 players recently arrested are still playing football
regularly on Sundays, game
day in the NFL. Here are three examples:

That brings us up to the current
"scandal"
in the NFL. The New England Patriots have been accused of
letting air out of some footballs in the Super Bowl game in January of this
year.
Not a whole lot, just enough so that the quarterback, Tom Brady, was more
comfortable handling it. The ploy involved a locker room
attendant, Jim
McNally, who reportedly received some perks for doing the "dastardly"
deed. Also, as it is surmised by the
league investigators, Tom Brady
himself"was at least generally
aware" of the shenanigans going on in the secrecy of a bathroom,
before
the balls were taken out on the playing field. Reportedly, the president of
football operations of the NFL is reviewing the case
and will hand down any
punishment meted out.

Well, I don't know about you, but it
seems to me, after all the furor over the
NFL's failure to properly police and
enforce the large number of violent crimes in the league, to punish Tom Brady
for being "at
least generally aware" of the "heinous" crime
of maybe knowing that someone let some air out of a football, would at
last
open up the NFL as having a most incompetent leadership. Why doesn't the league
just let each team put the amount of air in the
football they are happy with,
and when it's their down. use that ball? Wouldn't that solve the problem?
Aren't there bigger fish to
fry in the money-trumps-all world of professional
sports these days? I think so!